Today's Clips (10/15/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Luther Clement-Lam's short doc: One man’s unlikely path to Olympic glory.

Liberal-arts colleges have long told students that they can major in whatever they want and still go on to a solid, and even lucrative, profession. ...

Davidson offensive lineman Ethan Steinbacher has seen the football program’s growth from afterthought to contender. He and the Wildcats look to end San Diego’s 30-game conference winning streak this weekend.

Thanks to a rule change, late Davidson basketball star Mike Maloy will be inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in February. Maloy was Davidson’s first black athlete and a three-time All-American.

"I always wished, 'God, make me not a homosexual,' since I could imagine no life as that. And I told [my LGBTQ] workshop participants, once you accept and cherish who you are, you shine like [a] star."

Considering the intimacy of the Davidson College campus, it may not come as a surprise that a graduate's recent wedding was attended by plenty of other alumni. But while attending the

IN OTHER NEWS

Applications to some of America’s most elite business schools fell at a steeper rate this year, as universities struggled to attract international students amid changes to immigration policies.

A quarter of undergraduate women at the schools reported nonconsensual sexual contact.

"You studied Darwin last year, didn’t you? It is the natural way of the world. ... Some people can do this for their kids and some people can’t,” a wealthy mother says to her daughter in the film.

Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 44 public and private universities in the United States work with outside consulting companies to collect and analyze data on prospective students, either by tracking their Web activity or formulating predictive scores to measure each student’s likelihood of enrolling. The vast majority of universities reviewed by The Post do not tell students the schools are collecting their information.

Despite the rhetoric of catastrophe, evidence shows claims of “free speech crisis” on campus are overblown.

The donation comes from a graduate who said his education was “transformational.”

Ideological differences have made an overhaul of the Higher Education Act fraught.

A University of Mississippi honors student has reported himself to the college for posting a photo in which he is wearing blackface, prompting the school to issue a warning about costumes.

Johns Hopkins University officials are investigating a possible sexual assault at a fraternity house Friday night, according to an email campus security sent to students and staff on Monday.

The Union County Health Department paid a visit to Wingate University Monday to create an action plan after students complained about finding bugs in the cafeteria's food.

The assumption here is that if a student doesn't "complete" then he has failed -- or the system has failed him.

TRADES

Contrary to popular belief about the atmosphere on college campuses, students are able to have and maintain friendships with people they don’t see eye to eye with, a study finds.

Colleges are tracking them with greater sophistication, but the students don’t seem to care. Should you?

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